Monthly Archive for Colorado
Colorado Stories Posted in November 2007
Opinion: Zygote rights? 'Personhood' measure on the fringe
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Daily Camera
So, you've decided, in consultation with your doctors, to use the benefits of modern technology to have a child. You're in-vitro-fertilized eggs now "live" at a lab facility, and soon, via implantation, you hope pregnancy will result.
Abortion foes' strategy advances
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Los Angeles Times
Antiabortion activists in several states are promoting constitutional amendments that would define life as beginning at conception, which could effectively outlaw all abortions and some birth control methods.
Should Fertilized Eggs Have Rights?
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Time Magazine
If Colorado for Equal Rights for Human Life and other anti-abortion groups can wrangle 76,000 signatures in the next six months, theirs could be the first state in the nation to vote on whether a fertilized egg should legally be considered a person. Despite resistance from abortion-rights groups, the Colorado Supreme Court on November 13 approved the ballot measure — 40 years after Colorado became the first state to relax abortion laws — giving a boost to a conservative political movement that has worked doggedly for decades to overturn Roe v. Wade. Colorado Right to Life spokesman Bob Enyart says, "Embryos are living human beings with eternal souls and spirits. You just have to refrain from killing one to see what a precious child it is."
Colorado Supreme Court Permits Embryonic Personhood Ballot Measure
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Life Site
Pro-life human rights activists in Colorado may be on the verge of a major breakthrough in the struggle against the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision. The group Colorado for Equal Rights received permission from a unanimous vote Tuesday in the state Supreme Court to begin collecting the signatures needed to bring forward a ballot initiative that would grant the status of legal personhood to the unborn.
Proposed Colorado Measure on Rights for Human Eggs
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: The New York Times
A proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution that would give legal rights to fertilized human eggs may be headed for the ballot next year, raising the prospect of a heated local debate over abortion at the same time that Democrats are gathering here for their national convention.
Court Clears Way for Egg Rights Showdown
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: The Associated Press
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person. The court approved the language of the proposal, rejecting a challenge from abortion-rights supporters who argued it was misleading and dealt with more than one subject in violation of the state constitution.
New Details Surrounding Abortion Measure
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: My FOX Colorado
After decades of debate, and years of yelling, is it possible the battle over abortion rights could come down to a few simple words? 20 year old law student, Kristi Burton thinks so.
ANALYSIS: Will Children in the Womb Receive Constitutional Protection in Colorado?
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: Catholic Online
A ballot initiative in Colorado cleared a State Supreme Court challenge this week, opening the way for passing legislation which will give children in the womb in Colorado recognition as persons, complete with the due process protections of the Colorado Constitution. This movement is gaining steam in other States.Is it the bright light the pro-life movement needs?
Court: Wording Of Anti-Abortion Measure Is Legal
Category: Abortion · State: Colorado · Source: The Associated Press
The Colorado Supreme Court cleared the way Tuesday for an anti-abortion group to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would define a fertilized egg as a person.
City must set up panel to review marijuana cases
Category: Marijuana · State: Colorado · Source: The Associated Press
An 11-member review panel will be set up to monitor Denver's marijuana possession cases under a ballot measure approved by voters.
Marijuana measure not likely to matter
Category: Marijuana · State: Colorado · Source: Rocky Mountian News
Once again on a ballot measure, Mason Tvert pushed for allowing marijuana possession in Denver, and once again, he got it by a whopping vote total.
In Denver, a Ballot Fight Over Marijuana Arrests
Category: Marijuana · State: Colorado · Source: The New York Times
In 2005, voters here approved a measure making it legal for an adult to possess an ounce or less of marijuana. But arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession have risen since then.
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